Zephyr

by Susan Browne

Winner of the 2009 Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry (Editor's Choice), written by the author of Buddha's Dogs, which was selected by Ed Hirsch as the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize "The poems in Susan Browne's Zephyr are grounded in the mysteries of this terribly known, outrageously funny and sad world. With an expert sense of language and narrative, this intrepid poet cranks her highbeams to rummage 'humanity's basement, the murk inside the mammalian heart' and unearths each dark, radiant truth." -- Dorianne Laux

Genres: Poetry

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Tina Schumann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very satisfying poems. Full of a love of life in all its incarnations. Intelligent and witty.

[Peggy Heitmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book because Kim Addonizio endorsed this book so much that she used it in a presentation to say--here this is the way to write a book of poetry. i agree there are some wonderful poems, even better lines, but some of the poems leave me cold, thinking--Really?
These are the poems from Zepher that I like: On Our First Date, King of the Wild Frontier, Mandolin, Alone in Paradise, Ibis, To the Moment, Fairy Tale Elegy, Hard to Believe, The Deponent's Testimony, Last Things, Grace, Dusk, Listen, On Our Eleventh Anniversary, Elegy for my Flannel Pajamas, Let Us Live Only for Passion, Ode to Autumn. That's 17 out of 47 poems. I do love the last poem of the book, and I love the way the book ends. It's just that I expected more since it had been praised so highly

[Patrick Sauers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like Zephyr I thought the chap book was funny in dry dark sense. her observations of things especially “At Bloomingdale’s Grand Opening in San Francisco.” was funny. Also I have heard speak and she has perfect timing of her lines. I suggest to flip through the book instead cover to cover picking out poems I felt was more fun and less tiring